Cotshill Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1983. Hospital, former workhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cotshill Hospital
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bracket-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1983
- Type
- Hospital, former workhouse
- Address
- Cotshill Hospital, London Road, Chipping Norton
- OS grid reference
- SP 317 274
- Coordinates
- 51.94471, -1.53941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cotshill Hospital is a former workhouse, now serving as a hospital, built around 1835 by George Wilkinson of Whitney. The main building features coursed rubblestone with stone dressings, showcasing finer courses and a heavily rock-faced plinth at the entrance block. It has gabled slate roofs and brick stacks throughout. The design includes a central lantern with six radiating wings, and the administrative block is positioned at right angles to the end of the western arm. The main building stands three storeys tall, with windows that have cambered heads and casements. The administrative block is more architecturally elaborate, consisting of two storeys and nine bays arranged in a rhythm of threes. It features a first-floor platband and a projecting eaves cornice. The outer three bays at each end have square-headed 12-pane sash windows, while the first-floor windows in the central section are round-headed. Below these, set in recesses with dentil courses, are two round-headed windows flanking a central door that has a semi-circular fanlight above it, with steps leading up to the door.
The building has been converted to residential use, and alterations include the demolition of two of the six wings.
Local climate
Cotshill Hospital receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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